Kangemi is a slum

Slum

A slum, as defined by United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the...

 in Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

. It is on the road connecting Nairobi

Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...

 with Naivasha

Naivasha

Naivasha is a market town in Rift Valley Province, Kenya, lying north west of Nairobi. It is located on the shore of Lake Naivasha and along the Nairobi - Nakuru highway and Uganda Railway.Naivasha is part of the Nakuru District...

 and on the outskirts of Nairobi. It likely has more than 100,000 residents. Kangemi is in a small valley.

The slum has no sewerage

Sewerage

Sewerage refers to the infrastructure that conveys sewage. It encompasses receiving drains, manholes, pumping stations, storm overflows, screening chambers, etc. of the sanitary sewer...

. About 20,000 persons belong to a Catholic parish based in Kangemi. Kangemi High School exists in Kangemi. Many residents of Kangemi are HIV-positive. There have been riots in Kangemi.

See also

• Dagoretti
  Dagoretti
  Dagoretti refers to an area in western Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Administratively it is one of eight divisions of Nairobi. The Dagoretti division is divided into six Locations...
  
  
• Githurai
  Githurai
  Githurai is a slumburbia in Nairobi,Kenya. It is in the Eastern part of Nairobi, about 12 km from the city centre. Its population likely exceeds 300,000 persons.About half of Githurai is in Kasarani Constituency of Nairobi county while the other half is in Juja Constituency of Kiambu county...
  
  
• Huruma
  Huruma
  Huruma Estate is a residential estate located in the northeast of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It borders Kariobangi and Dandora to the East, Moi Air Base to the south, Mathare to the North and Eastleigh to the West.- Notable residents :...
  
  
• Kawangware
  Kawangware
  Kawangware is a slum in Kenya. It is about 15km from the city centre of Nairobi, to the West. It is between Lavington Estate and Dagoretti. It has about hundreds of thousands of residents, many of whom are children. Water supplied by the city authority is not available every day. Safe drinking...
  
  
• Kiambiu
  Kiambiu
  Kiambiu is a slum in Nairobi, Kenya with 40-50,000 residents. Kiambiu is located 4 kilometers East of the center of Nairobi...
  
  
• Kibera
  Kibera
  Kibera is a division of Nairobi Area, Kenya, and neighbourhood of the city of Nairobi, located from the city centre. Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the second largest urban slum in Africa...
  
  
• Korogocho
  Korogocho
  Korogocho is one of the largest slum neighbourhoods of Nairobi, Kenya. Home to 150,000 to 200,000 people pressed into a 1.5 square kilometres, northeast of the city centre, Korogocho was founded as a shanty town on the then outskirts of the city. In 2009 it was estimated to be the fourth largest...
  
  
• Mathare
  Mathare
  Mathare is a collection of slums in Nairobi, Kenya with a population of approximately 500,000 people; the population of Mathare Valley alone, the oldest of the slums that make up Mathare, is 180,000 people...
  
  
• Muirigo
  Muirigo
  Muirigo is a slum in Kenya. A Muirigo Primary School exists. Muirigo belongs to Kasarani. Other informal settlements in the Nairobi area include Huruma, Kiambiu, Korogocho, Mukuru and Kibera....
  
  
• Mukuru kwa Njenga
  Mukuru kwa Njenga
  Mukuru kwa Njenga is a slum in the East of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It belongs to Embakasi Constituency. It is one of the largest slums in Nairobi. Kenyan international footballer Patrick Oboya was born in Mukuru kwa Njenga. Among other major slums in Nairobi are Korogocho, Kibera and...
  
  
• Uthiru
  Uthiru
  Uthiru is a small town located South of the city centre of Nairobi and between Kikuyu and Kangemi. The number of residents likely exceeds 100,000. Kinoo Deanery of the Anglican Church of Kenya is divided into Kinoo, Muthiga, Uthiru and Kiuru Parishes. It belongs to Uthiru Archdeaconry of The...